Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse

John Bradford
2003-10-26T09:39:08Z

> 4. When writing ZEROES to the bad sector, the drive reports SUCCESS.
> But it lies. Subsequent attempts to read still fail. Subsequent writing of
> zeroes appears to succeed again. Subsequent attempts to read still fail.

> I still have to say, we can't fix Toshiba, and we can avoid Toshiba, but
> meanwhile we can fix Linux.

How do you suggest we 'fix' 4, above, other than to flush the cache
and verify each time a full sector of zeros is written to the disk?

John.